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Model Helps Search for Moon Dust Fountains

NASA image release June 10, 2010

 

This is a picture of coronal and zodiacal light (CZL) taken with the Clementine spacecraft, when the sun was behind the moon. The white area on the edge of the moon is the CZL, and the bright dot at the top is the planet Venus.

 

Credit: NASA/GSFC

 

To learn more go to: www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/features/2010/lhg.html

 

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is home to the nation's largest organization of combined scientists, engineers and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the Earth, the sun, our solar system, and the universe.

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Uploaded on June 10, 2010
Taken on June 10, 2010